Hammer attachment



Sept. 26, 1933. s 1,928,268

HAMMER ATTACHMENT Filed Jan. 6, 1935 Patented Sept. 26, 1933 PATENT OFFICE HAMMER ATTACHMENT Edward Sanders, Harwood, N. Dak.

Application January 6, 1933.

2 Claims.

This invention relates to tools, and particularly to hammers, and the invention includes means attachable to a claw hammer for holding a nail while the same is being driven.

It often occurs that in using a hammer for driving nails, the hand of the operator is employed in holding the board or material to be attached by a nail and it is inconvenient or impossible to hold the nail while it is being started.

It is an object of this invention to provide a device which is an attachment adapted to cooperate or coact with a hammer for holding the nail and at the same time starting it during a nail driving operation.

It is a further object of the invention to provide novel means readily applied to and removed from the claws of a hammer, the said attachment being effective to hold the nail while it is started in the driving operation, it being the purpose of the inventor that the claws of the hammer shall coact with the device for holding the nail against laterial movement which might result in causing the nail to bend or become distorted.

It is an object of this invention furthermoreto provide a nail holding instrumentality to be associated with a hammer, the said device being effective and having a construction which is com-- paratively inexpensive.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, theinvention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the inventionin detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this application, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a hammer showing a device embodying the invention applied thereto;

Figure 2 illustrates a sectional view on the line 2-2 of Figure 1, omitting the fragment of the handle and the handle socket of the hammer head;

Figure 3 illustrates a perspective view of the nail holding device;

Figure 4 illustrates a top plan view of a fragment of the hammer head with a device embodying the invention applied;

Figure 5 illustrates a perspective view of a blank for a nail holder embodying a modification; and

Figure 6 illustrates a view in elevation of the nail holder formed from the blank shown in Fig ure 5, one of the arms being in section.

Serial No. 650,569

In the drawing 10 denotes a hammer head, 11 and 12 the claws thereof, and 13 the V shaped opening between the said claws.

The nail holding attachment, in the present embodiment of the invention, comprises a rectangular frame which fits over the, claws of the hammer, the said frame being provided with an inwardly extending arm 14 which is intended to fit in the opening 13 and to be pressed into engagement with the claws where they converge.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, the nail holding attachment is formed by bending wire of proper gage for producing the desired rigidity and, as shown in Fig ure 3, the wire is preferably shaped to produce two 70 parallel frame-like portions 15 and 16 lying side by side. The frame-like portions are formed from a single piece of wire doubled on itself to form a loop 17, the said doubled portions being doubled on themselves toform a projection 18 75 and then shaped to form the frame, as shown in Figure 3. The terminal portion or extremity of one length of wire is bent inwardly to form the arm 14, whereas the other portion of the wire near its end is bent upwardly, as at 19, parallel with the portion 18 and then. extended downwardly, as at 20, to cooperate with that portion of the structure above the loop 17, it being shown that these portions are oppositely bent to form the jaws of a clip, the said jaws being identified by the numerals 21 and 22, between which a nail is pushed and held when the device is applied to a hammer claw, as illustrated in Figure 1, it being shown that the head of the nail is engaged by the hammer. It is the purpose of the inventor that the operator may seat the point of the nail with one blow sufficiently to retain it in place, so that the head of the hammer may then be employed to drive it home.

In that form of the invention shown in Figure 5, a body portion 23 has a reduced end 24 and a bifurcated end 25. A blank of the character indi cated may be shaped to form a rectangle 26, shown in Figure 6, and the bifurcated end may 100 be shaped to form curved arms, such as 27, whereas the reduced end 24 may be shaped to form a depending arm 28, a portion of which lies in the furcation in the slot of the bifurcated section between the arms 27. The arms are bent 105 to form clip sections 29 and 30 for holding a nail, whereas the frame portion will of course be applied to the claws of a hammer for cooperation therewith in driving or starting the nail, as heretofore described.

I claim:

1. In a tool, a frame-like element adapted to be applied to the claws of a hammer and having projections extending into the area of the element adapted to fit between the claws, and clips integral with the said frame adapted to occupy positions below said claws for retaining a nail while being started.

2; The combination with a claw hammer, of a 

